NewsWhore
04-24-2008, 03:30 PM
The DR has the unwanted distinction of being ranked fourth in the world in terms of the number of women working abroad in the sex trade. According to the Aquelarre Support Center (CEAPA), 50,000 Dominican women work as prostitutes abroad. The sex trade is usually tied in with human rights violations and involves large sums of money, international organized crime and drug trafficking. Hoy illustrates the reality of the issue through the story of "Fatima", a young women who was conned into the sex trade. The young woman says she was tricked into going abroad thinking she was going to get a better life, but ended up being forced to work in the sex industry for three months. She says that as part of her work schedule she slept with up to nine men a day and was drugged by the runners.
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